Hi friends! It’s me, Daniel. If you know me IRL, you’ve probably heard me blather at length about something JavaScript related. My first professional programming job was almost all Vanilla JavaScript so I’ve loved JS for a long time. Unlike some folks, I find its quirks and eccentricities endearing. Prototypal inheritance is a bit wacky […]
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I’ve started recording my covers as a way to capture what I can play at this moment in my life—welcome to 2025 Chapter 2! In this chapter, enjoy some songs from small artists (little image) and some from giants (Chappell Roan). I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy playing them.
I’ve started recording my covers as a way to capture what I can play at this moment in my life—welcome to 2025 Chapter 1! In this chapter, you’ll hear my renditions of Queens of the Stone Age’s *Vampyre of Time and Memory*, Fitz and the Tantrums’ *I Just Wanna Shine*, MISSIOS’ *Can You Feel the Sun*, and alt-J’s *Breezeblocks*. I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy playing them.
The playlist for January is very light. I (Daniel) struggled with some difficult work challenges and didn’t have much time for music. =Even so, there are some great songs here. It kicks off with the very catchy All My Friends by Madeon. Then we go around the world around the world around the world around
There’s not much to say about this playlist. There was a Christmas village in our local park which made traffic and parking very difficult so we didn’t get out much. There are a total of 6 songs. 2 are lofi (thanks YouTube). Jingle Bell Rock because we couldn’t escape it, even here. Two Croatian holiday
I knew that Italy, especially Florence, would give us opportunities to experience amazing art. My degree is in Fine Art, so I have seen a lot of beautiful Italian works in textbooks. Getting to see some of these works in person was astounding. It’s been several years since I’ve refreshed my knowledge – I was
Y’all. Daniel here. The pottery experience was extremely special. Our guide Matteo was kind, gracious, welcoming, and extremely passionate about their family business. He patiently explained each workstation in their factory, fielded questions big-and-small, and exuded contagious excitement. Younger me would not have believed getting to see this place was possible. The factory has been
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The August playlist was a hard one to follow. As a result, September is a shorter playlist that we’ve listened to less. It opens with Ray Dalton’s Do It Again which is a banger. It features a (metal?) song we picked up from a painter in Trogir who told us stories of living in Ireland;
I’ve been working on FidgetMap for a while now. I think I could speed up a lot of processes (including the basic render loop) by adding Web Workers to handle a lot of the rendering tasks asynchronously. The whole game is drawn by writing RGB data to arrays then compositing them onto a canvas, so
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